Brute Press

Culled from various old engineering manuals, these found art prints share some of the beauty of technical and schematic drawing with a new audience.

Further Compression – 8.5″ x 11″ #70 text, black and blue ink. $15

An old German Surgical Manual found coverless and with a damaged binding in a bargain thrift store bin provides gripping and historically interesting found art. From the best deductions the manual dates from between 1918-1920. These prints are formed from high quality scans, then color stripped, cleaned, and re-colored, in the case of multiple color [...]

Handwritten notes found around Portland, Oregon, typeset, and then screen printed onto heavyweight art cardstock or 20# paper in black ink. Most in limited sets of ten.
11″ x 14″ $10 (paper) & $15 (cardstock).

Invasive Species

#20 Bond – USD10.00Art Cardstock – USD15.00

Clean Water Act

#20 Bond – USD10.00Art Cardstock – USD15.00

Soy Sauce

#20 Bond – USD10.00Art Cardstock – [...]

Open-faced Mushroom Blastocyst – A Novella
by Adam Rothstein
Fungus is a delicious food, but it makes a confusing way of life.  We’re lucky most eschatology is written in books, rather than in the heated course of the blood vessels in our stomachs.
Available in These Editions:
Paperback Version 2.0
This edition of version 2.0 is printed on #20 bond, [...]

By Adam Rothstein
 
Published by Brute Press
 
http://www.brutepress.com
 
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.
 
Read/download it in PDF format here
 
The temporal-gram looked authentic, but a categorical paranoia told him authentic was worse than the alternative. Grant had managed to conduct his business thus far without getting caught, not to mention living to the [...]

Scab Suite – A Novella
by Adam Rothstein 
106 pages
published by Brute Press
Portland, Oregon
2008 
Available in these editions:
Paperback
Printed on 60# Offset
Covered in Pre-scored, 80# Cover Stock
Glue, and Staple-bound by Hand
$5.49

 
Digital PDF format
Free under Creative Commons license
“Scab Suite” pdf format 

B was our second adventure, not nearly as successful as the first.
Who cares, other than that?

Brute Press A was our first experiment, launched in the Winter/Spring of 2006. 
Here is the release statement.  Consider it a snapshot in time. 
Brute Press’ inaugural publication, “A”, officially drops today. This 34-page behemoth contains 100% Brutal Printed material, direct from the Brutes to you. Each copy is hand-made and individually numbered, for an all-around quality [...]